1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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11 * Installation changes
13 ** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
15 If you have tried No Gnus (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
16 release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading to
17 this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove the
18 `~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that flags are read
19 from your `~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale marks file, where
20 this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more
21 information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in
24 ** Lisp files are now installed in `.../site-lisp/gnus/' by default. It
25 defaulted to `.../site-lisp/' formerly. In addition to this, the new
26 installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which will shadow
27 the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually
28 or remove them using `make remove-installed-shadows'.
31 * New packages and libraries within Gnus
33 ** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
35 This provides a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The
36 user visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation, include
37 support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
39 ** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
41 The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
42 the server supports it.
44 ** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
46 It is enabled by default (see `password-cache'), with a short timeout of
47 16 seconds (see `password-cache-expiry'). If PGG is used as the PGP
48 back end, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords
49 for ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after
50 querying the user about whether to do so.
53 * Changes in summary and article mode
55 ** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers
56 that are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky
59 ** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
60 using `W i' (`gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
61 (<http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>) has been installed.
63 ** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back
64 ends that fully support non-ASCII group names are now `nntp', `nnml',
65 and `nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work
66 with those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::.
68 ** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
70 ** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: `/ r'
71 (`gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and `/ R'
72 (`gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
74 ** You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using `Y t'
75 (`gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles'). *Note Summary Generation
78 ** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: `C-c C-s C-t'
79 (`gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
81 ** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
82 configure the server in `smime-ldap-host-list'.
84 ** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key
85 ring when you click on them.
87 ** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
88 `gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
90 ** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using `W A'.
92 ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
93 articles (`gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
95 ** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header.
96 This changes the default of `gnus-article-loose-mime'.
98 ** `gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. For example,
99 set it to `\\.ADAPT\\'' and only adaptive score files will be decayed.
100 *Note Score Decays::.
102 ** Strings prefixing to the `To' and `Newsgroup' headers in summary lines
103 when using `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' can be customized with
104 `gnus-summary-to-prefix' and `gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'. *Note To
107 ** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
108 `gnus-mime-replace-part' and `gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
109 Commands::, *Note Using MIME::.
111 ** The option `mm-fill-flowed' can be used to disable treatment of
112 format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when sending
113 inline PGP signed messages. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text.
118 * Changes in Message mode
120 ** Gnus now supports the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam mechanism. Use
121 `(setq message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable. *Note Hashcash::.
123 ** You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer. See
124 `mml-dnd-protocol-alist' and `mml-dnd-attach-options'. *Note MIME:
127 ** The option `message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines are
128 prefixed in cited text. *Note Insertion Variables: (message)Insertion
131 ** Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The
132 `References' header is hidden by default. To make all headers visible,
133 use `(setq message-hidden-headers nil)'. *Note Message Headers:
134 (message)Message Headers.
136 ** You can highlight different levels of citations like in the article
137 buffer. See `gnus-message-highlight-citation'.
139 ** `auto-fill-mode' is enabled by default in Message mode. See
140 `message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message
143 ** You can now store signature files in a special directory named
144 `message-signature-directory'.
146 ** The option `message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the
147 "Whomever writes:" line. You need to set
148 `message-citation-line-function' to
149 `message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well.
152 * Changes in back ends
154 ** The nntp back end stores article marks in `~/News/marks'.
156 The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
157 `nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (back end)
158 variable `nntp-marks-is-evil'. The advantage of this is that you can
159 copy `~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus
160 installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and
161 marked. The data in `~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in
164 ** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note
167 ** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
169 By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself, but you can
170 customize it using the variable `nnimap-id'.
172 ** The `nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
173 names for the `nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
175 ** Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
177 ** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside `gzip' for
178 compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
180 ** The nnml back end supports group compaction.
182 This feature, accessible via the functions `gnus-group-compact-group'
183 (`G z' in the group buffer) and `gnus-server-compact-server' (`z' in the
184 server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and
185 removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count
186 (until messages are deleted again).
191 ** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also
192 customize the tool bar. There's no documentation in the manual yet, but
193 `M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you started. (Only
194 for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
196 ** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
197 see the variable `gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value
198 depends on your Emacs version.
200 ** You can change the location of XEmacs' toolbars in Gnus buffers. See
201 `gnus-use-toolbar' and `message-use-toolbar'.
205 * Miscellaneous changes
207 ** Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the server
208 buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of the groups which
209 use the server in question. For instance, if you change
210 `nntp-via-address' into `bar.example.com' from `foo.example.com', Gnus
211 will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
212 `bar.example.com' from next time.
214 ** The `all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using `W e'.
218 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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